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ole AL a SS wv Lo y The life of the horse racer. Glamour...big money ...prestige. Popular concep- tions probably include a Martini-sipping aristocrat dabbling in horseracing as a kind of amusing hobby or tax shelter, Meet John Young, horse racer...and workingman. «Visit the Port Perry Fair- grounds stables where John keeps his horses, and he'll destroy ~ . those - popular images very quickly. The Hollywood tinsel doesn't last long when you're cleaning out stables or. carrying buckets of water. The money? "Well, there's times," John states, "when I didn't know where the next meal was coming from. It's an up and down kind of thing." Mr. Young has been hand- ling horses for some 10° years now. He has five horses, and races them as" often as possible at tracks in Toronto, - Peterborough and others. 3 "I make a living at it...I guess." Far from a bread and butter on the table for the Youngs. "It's a full-time, seven-days-a-week job," John states. that's all* seasons of the year...winter and summer." In the month long recent _cold snap, for example, you could find John, most after- noons, exercising the horses on a frozen fairground track. "You got to go at it every day," he said. "They (the horses) get out of shape very quickly...and that means no prize money...and nothing to eat." Allow training to lapse for two weeks, and it takes the trainer the same amount of __time to get the animal back in racing shape. "You simply can't take time off in this business,' he said. Low overhead? Not so, says John. Like everything else, costs have skyrocketed in the horse racing business, too. Fee, for example, .has gone up | enormously, and so has the cost of such things as har- - nesses and other equipment. Veterinarian bills, a regular reality of the business are out of this world, says John. "They .(the-vets) think like a lot of people...that if you race horses you've got lots of money. So we get the bills..." And there's the transport- 1 | | i been dabbling hobby, racing horses puts- : 'And' ation costs, gasoline, trailer, [5 and more. Facts, according to John, for every horse racer who's making big money, there are scores of people scratch- ing out a living. To make it all worthwhile, of course, the horse must win races. John's had some good luck. One horse he raced 18 times last year, and it won_him $9,000.00. That's one case. He's gone some lengths between wins as well, he'll tell you. "Racing horses used to be ° a sport," says John, "but with the growth in popular- ity in recent years, it's become a business...a big business." And like other "Big businesses' it is much hard- er for the small independent fellow to keep up." The investment in the horse, for example, can be enormous. Not including his own time, John calculates he has over $4,000. in "Hard dollars" in some of his horses. To make any money,' he's got to recover that investment, plus make money. . But John isn't complain- ing. He left a factory job to get into horse racing full time, and he's never looked back. "I like what I'm - doing...I like my job. And' that's the main thing. You get a great deal of satis- faction racing horses," he said. '"When you've brought a horse-up from a colt, and trained him gradually to the sp N i. price. Trainer John Young feeds Bridget (the goat) her favourite delicacy --cigarettes. What's a goat doing in the same stall with a horse? It's a bit of animal psychology, explains Mr. Young. The horse was a point where he can race... well, when he finishes in the money, you feel mighty good." Yet there's not room for the romanticism of Black Beauty. "I enjoy doing what I'm doing, and like herses; But that's like...not love. You can't take the storybook approach. There isn't a horse of mine I wouldn't sell right now..for the right Gd This profession means little glamour, hard work picky eater until Bridget was put in the pen. But that problem has been 'eliminated with the goat. Seems the horse has found that any delay in dinner finds the plate squeaky clean. Bridget is all stomach. PORT & PERRY TAR PORT PERRY, ONTARIO -- WEDNESDAY, SECOND ed SECTION MARCH 10, 1976 -- PAGE 17 Township to charge Island resort owner Scugeg Township Counci} _ is preparing to lay a-charge - against Scugog Island resort owner -Phil Goreski. Scugog's building inspect- or and bylaw enforcement officer Graham Fish was scheduled to see the town- ship's solicitor Tuesday in preparation for a charge of constructing a boat shed without holding a township - building permit. x The shed, which according to Mr. Fish is completed, is located on the west: side of the main canal between Scugog and Platten Islands. "Mr. Fish said he was re- quested to visit the site on Feb. 6, and discovered only that piles were being driven through the ice. No action could be taken at that time, said Mr. Fish. A subsequent visit, how- ever, found the addition to be well underway, and Mr. Fish sent a registered letter to Mr. Goreski demanding that the construction stop until a permit has been issued. Ma Bell changes A coin telephone replace- ment and conversion pro- gram involving the instal- lation of new single-slot Cen- turion sets, a 20-cent charge for local calls from some pay phones, and the provis- ion of emergency calling without coins from all outdoor-located booths. starts here March 12, 1976. The coin phone project which will take about two days to complete, also includes Oshawa. Whitby and Ajax-Pickering. Since then, according to ~Mr: Fish, the building has been completed. He said that he was unable to post a sign on the property because it is located well back in from a fence. An undelivered regis- tered letter is returned to the sender, so Mr. Fish is certain that the letter ordering the halt was received. According to Mr. Fish, _ Goreski had tried to get an application for a permit in February, but the applica- tion needed council's ap- proval. "He went ahead and built anyway." said Mr. Fish. Mr. Fish said that the Tre- sort owner claims he had to take advantage of ideal weather conditions to erect the building, and for this reason had to go ahead when he did. Sewage chargeback. . . higher costs for Scugog Sewage disposal may not only be onc of the main problems that needed to be clininated before there is any major increases in industrial development in the area, but the problem of how to pay for sewage sys- teins could become just as vital 'a question. No matter it the Region of Durham establishes a uni- form rate for its sewer sys- tems this year or remains with the present '"'charge- back system," it'll mean higher costs for Scugog users. But considering the amount of increase makes the diff- erence. . Should the Region decide to remain with the chargeback system, Scugog users could well be looking at an in- crease of well over 100 per- cent. According to figures released in a special report from regional finance com- missioner Jack Gartley to the finance departments of the eight area municipalities the township's average bill could skyrocket from $48 to $122. Comparison between 1976 average bills for both chargeback and uniform rate show Scugog with a much smaller increase, a projected average bill of $63. in 1976 under the charge- back system to $79.31 under the anil rate system. Of the cight, only two mun- icipalities Oshawa and Scugog are faced with higher sewer charges under the uniform rate than if the region were to remain on its present form of financing sewer costs, the "charge- back" method. Based on last year's aver- age consumption figures, the comparison between 1976 average bills for both chargeback and uniform rate (uniform in brackets) are: Ajax $93.27 ($59.48) ; Beaverton (Brock) $96 ($95.31), Bowmanville $62 ($29.03). Newcastle Village $120 ($94.51); Oshawa $36.13 $46.10); Pickering $59 ($42.18): Scugog $63 ($79.31) Uxbridge $78 ($59.02) Whithy $80.94 ($67.09) - XLS: